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About our Breeding Farm Team
Good Luck Farm Lipizzans is a Lipizzan breeding farm owned by Esther Buonanno, third generation of the Tempel Smith Family who founded and fostered the internationally recognized 65 year breeding, training and exhibition program Tempel Lipizzans of Northern Illinois. Following 14 years of directing Tempel Lipizzans breeding program and public exhibitions, she acquired the best Tempel breeding horses and has continued breeding and raising young Lipizzan horses at her farm in Boulder County, Colorado. She has invested in importing outside blood every 5 years to keep diversity in the genetics of the United States Lipizzan. She is managing a breeding program and selling a limited number of Lipizzan horses each year. With such a strong and important genetic outpost and a farm well-suited to raising young Lipizzans, she will also offer mare leases, stallion services and pasture/herd board for young Lipizzans.
Essential to the program's success is our Herd and Breeding Manager Arturo Novoa. A lifetime horseman with a passion for excellence in horse care and best practices in horse handling, Arturo and his wife Marlee, our Assistant Herd Manager, create a safe farm for well-adjusted horses. The Novoas relocated to Colorado from Tempel Farms with the horses; the transition has been seamless due to their know-how and the heartiness of our horses. Arturo, who knows each horse since birth, is the first to back most of our youngsters and start them in their ridden work inside and on trails. Esther, Marlee and Arturo work as a team on the development of our new farm and will be thrilled to share our experiences when you come for a visit.
Other Things to Know:
Good Luck Farm Lipizzans is a Lipizzan breeding farm owned by Esther Buonanno, third generation of the Tempel Smith Family who founded and fostered the internationally recognized 65 year breeding, training and exhibition program Tempel Lipizzans of Northern Illinois. Following 14 years of directing Tempel Lipizzans breeding program and public exhibitions, she acquired the best Tempel breeding horses and has continued breeding and raising young Lipizzan horses at her farm in Boulder County, Colorado. She has invested in importing outside blood every 5 years to keep diversity in the genetics of the United States Lipizzan. She is managing a breeding program and selling a limited number of Lipizzan horses each year. With such a strong and important genetic outpost and a farm well-suited to raising young Lipizzans, she will also offer mare leases, stallion services and pasture/herd board for young Lipizzans.
Essential to the program's success is our Herd and Breeding Manager Arturo Novoa. A lifetime horseman with a passion for excellence in horse care and best practices in horse handling, Arturo and his wife Marlee, our Assistant Herd Manager, create a safe farm for well-adjusted horses. The Novoas relocated to Colorado from Tempel Farms with the horses; the transition has been seamless due to their know-how and the heartiness of our horses. Arturo, who knows each horse since birth, is the first to back most of our youngsters and start them in their ridden work inside and on trails. Esther, Marlee and Arturo work as a team on the development of our new farm and will be thrilled to share our experiences when you come for a visit.
Other Things to Know:
- Horses at Good Luck Farm are managed exclusively by professionals with the highest standards. They are handled from birth and quickly learn their daily routine. Lipizzan horses don't begin training until they are 3 and a half years old. In their younger years, they live in a herd of their contemporaries as their bodies and minds are developing.
- All 3 and half year-olds (young stallions, geldings and mares) begin a dressage training program where they learn solid foundations of dressage training and excellent ground manners. Trail rides are always a must, and all our youngsters love to be outside on trails.
- Our careful breeding program is focused on producing high quality Lipizzans based on the original standards of the breed. With the help of top advisors in the field, we have strengthened the quality of our herd in the past four years by introducing outside bloodlines.
- With less than 11,000 Lipizzans worldwide and a domestic breed status that wavers in and out of ENDANGERED, all Lipizzan breeders and owners feel an extra responsibility for these rare horses and their care into the future. The number of young Lipizzans in the US has declined in the past 10 years as breeding has slowed. You will find that there are not many Lipizzans on the market, and even less with training.
- Tempel Lipizzans owners Martha Smith Simpson and Linda Smith Buonanno were recognized by the Austrian government with the presentation of the Officers Cross, Grand Decoration of Honor for Service to the Republic of Austria, for their "careful management of a cultural institution with such close ties to Austria. "
- As of 2015, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, after which Tempel's program was modeled, was added to the Representative List of UNESCOs "intangible cultural heritage of humanity." In 2022, the Lipizzan breeding traditions of 8 European countries were also inscribed to UNESCO's Representative List.
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